Carrying MTC Service in 5G - A Network Management Perspective
Xu Li, Jaya B. Rao, Hang Zhang, Sophie Vrzic · 2016
MTC services are undergoing rapid increase; billions of MTC connections can be anticipated in a few years. When supporting MTC services in telecommunications networks, MTC traffic characteristics and its unique service requirements should be exploited in order to optimize resource utilization and offer satisfactory service quality for all devices. In this paper, we present an Information-Centric Virtual Network Architecture (IC-VNA) that allows to meticulously combine both the customer and operator specific virtual functions along with their requirements to construct an augmented virtual network topology. It is shown that through the IC-VNA it is feasible to rapidly roll-out highly programmable and flexible services while providing high degree of scalability and cost effectiveness for both MTC service providers and network operators.